New Directions in Italian and Italian-American History: A Conference in Honor of
Philip Cannistraro
Saturday, November 5, 2011
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
John D. Calandra Italian-American Institute
25 West 43rd Street 17th Floor, New York City (212) 642-2094
Keynote
Emilio Gentile, University of Rome, La Sapienza
“Fabbrica del consenso o fabbrica del potere? Redefining Fascism and Totalitarianism”
New Directions in Italian-American History
Chair: Gerald Meyer, Hostos Community College, CUNY
Charles Killinger, University of Central Florida, “Italian Antifascist Exiles and the Italian-American Community: Renato Poggioli and Gaetano Salvemini as Case Studies”
Marcella Bencivenni, Hostos Community College, CUNY, “Re-examining Italian-American Radical History Through the Lens of Culture”
Peter Vellon, Queens College, CUNY, “‘The humiliation of being treated like Negroes’: The Italian-American Education in Matters of Race”
New Directions in Italian History, I
Chair: Emily Braun, Hunter College & The Graduate Center, CUNY
Paul Corner, University of Siena, “Factories and their Products: A Comment on Phil Cannistraro's La fabbrica del consenso”
Ernest Ialongo, Hostos Community College, CUNY, “The Calculated Compromise: F.T. Marinetti and Fascism in the Twenties”
William Adams, Hunter College, CUNY, “The politica dei ponti in the Republic of Salò”
New Directions in Italian History, II
Chair: John Davis, University of Connecticut
Marta Petrusewicz, University of Calabria, “Fin-de-siècle Rome: A Republic of Collectors”
Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University, “Dancing on a Volcano: Attempting a Popular History of Naples”
David Aliano, College of Mount Saint Vincent, “Re-imagining the Nation: Italian National Narratives Abroad (1922-1945)”
Coverage at:
http://www.i-italy.org/node/18704
Photos at:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.283049048394685.76292.100000687760912&type=1&l=5ca2af0bf3
http://www.i-italy.org/node/18589
The book resulting from the conference has been published and is available at this link. 
